Corporate Development PMO Finance Manager

Corporate Development PMO Finance Manager is a key role within the Corporate Development team, delivering tracking and reporting in support of a diverse range of internal and external investments, across all Informa Divisions. Focus will be split between Internal Capital Investment/GAP2 and the M&A/Integration activities:

Capital Investment/GAP2: You will own central performance reporting for approved investments and support operating divisions in development of business cases for new initiatives. Capital Investment will include the tracking and reporting of GAP2 projects, through to completion.

M&A/Integration: the role holder monitors and supports post completion integration and financial performance, to ensure acquisitions perform according to the deal rationale and financial model, including delivery of synergies.

Main Duties & Responsibilities

• Lead development of robust, timely tracking and reporting against internal investments and acquisitions.
• Develop monthly dashboards displaying performance of internal investments.
• Maintain and Continuously Improve the Corporate Development M&A register, forming a central repository of completed M&A deals and history of financial performance post completion.
• Maintain and manage a schedule of contingent payments and engage with Treasury for forward visibility.
• Support tracking of M&A integration spend, challenging functions to increase understanding of variances to budget and improve future budget requests.
• Review monthly Capex spend forecasts, reporting centrally on month-on-month movements and variance to budget, and upcoming projects.
• Partner with Divisions to create meaningful, streamlined business cases of consistently high quality for Capital Investment Committee (CIC) review.
• Support the Capital investment process, working closely with back-office functions to ensure processes are aligned and working efficiently.
• Maintain and continuously improve central investment templates and associated processes.
• Coordinate quarterly CIC Council meetings to review internal investment portfolio with senior leadership.
• Support ad-hoc strategy, M&A and Business Planning activities as required.

Qualifications

Knowledge & Qualifications

• Qualified accountant preferred, ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent.
• Excellent knowledge and understanding of Finance processes, systems, and ways of working.
• Experience in a commercially focussed role in a busy finance department.
• Strong MS skillset, especially Excel and PowerPoint (knowledge of formatting, formulas, looks ups and Pivot tables are the minimum requirements).
• High Attention to detail is essential.
• Financial reporting experience is essential
• Data visualisation experience
• Working knowledge of SAP Financial Consolidation and TM1 reporting would be highly desirable but not essential.
• Project management experience, PRINCE2, PMP or equivalent beneficial.

Skills & Abilities

• Ability to work with and support stakeholders in a global divisional environment.
• Able to demonstrate an innovative approach to work with enthusiasm and innovation.
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Proven ability to deliver under pressure and as per strict deadlines.
• Self-starter with proactive nature, and ability to work autonomously under limited supervision.
• Ability to thrive in a dynamic, complex, and uncertain environment.
• Good communication and stakeholder management skills, ability to write reports and create PowerPoint presentations in a succinct and direct manner.
• Credibility and professional integrity to work with stakeholders at all levels within the organisation.
• Experience using Power BI would be advantageous.

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